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Persian Carpet Weavers in a workshop in Qom. The silk carpets of Qom are known for their high quality and have the most small dotted ones in Iran. Iran's more than 1 million weavers produce an average of $500 million in exports a year.

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Iran was occupied by Allied Powers during WWII. A convoy of trucks is hauling foor and other supplies from Iran to USSR leaving local people in misery. Millions of people starved from hunger during a war in which Iran had declared neutral.

First elected Iranian President Abolhasan Banisadr siiting by famous Italian reporter Oriana Fallaci in 1979 after the Iranian Revolution. Banisadr soon fell out with Khomeini and disappointed his supporters by fleeing to France on 28 July 1981.

Iranian Women in black chadors packed in the trunk of a car atTehran's Behesht Zahra cemetery in September, 1979, at the funeral of Ayatollah Taleghani: an Iranian theologian, humanist, reformer, democracy advocate and a senior Shia cleric of Iran.

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Remains of a Portuguese Castle on the Qeshm Island is a tourist attraction. In 1515, Albuquerque returned to Persian Gulf with 27 battleships and started an occupation that lasted for almost a century until Shah Abbas the Great kicked them out.

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Iranian Actress in Islamic dress poses in Perspolis.Persepolis was the dazzling capital of the Persian Empire, back when it reached from Greece to India. Built by Dariush and his son Xerxes the Great around 500 B.C.

Iran Iraq War (1980-1988) A Woman in chador is holding her Child while passing over a grounded tank, one of thousands of Refuges who were displaced from their home, some of them were never to return because of loss of lives and property.